Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual progress of yesterday's individual campaign of petitions, leaders of the vote reform group said that they had no available figures as to how many Seniors had signed up. From a not entirely reliable source, however, it was learned that 50 men of 1938 had affixed signatures to the petition being circulated in Adams House...
...angry and jealous minority. First a Senior Class convention, especially if held in the New Lecture Hall on a warm day in April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing...
Paris often presents the weak aspect of a gang of disunited politicians tearing each other's hair and kicking the slats out of the latest Cabinet. But last week's vote of 439-to-2 showed what Frenchmen do when they must. The might and unity of the Republic, not the prestige of Chautemps & Delbos, both ephemeral Politicians, were behind their announcement to the Chamber last week that France will...
Upon emotional, freedom-loving French legislators the words of Orator Schuschnigg had galvanic effect. Everyone was quoting him in the lobbies of the French Chamber next day. His speech was an important factor in swinging the 439-10-2 vote of the Chamber promising that the French Army would help, if necessary, to maintain Austrian independence...
...split, which occured Tuesday, among the ranks of the Student Union. The break, between the officers of the Union and certain liberal elements, was the result of the stand taken by H. S. U. delegates to the Vassar Convention in December, which was repudiated last week by a vote...